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Remember when we needed separate devices for everything? Join us as we explore the technological relics and cultural phenomena that defined the 2010s but didn't survive to see the 2020s! From BlackBerry phones to Vine videos, these once-ubiquitous items have faded into nostalgia. Which of these defunct treasures do you miss the most? Let us know in the comments below!
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00:00Manufacturers have pulled the plug, and there'll be no more 3D TVs launched by any of the major brands.
00:07Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most iconic pieces of 2010's culture that didn't make it into the 2020s.
00:14So long, old buddy, old pal! So long!
00:21Number 20. Needing more than your phone.
00:23If you grew up before the rise of smartphones, you might remember teachers telling us that when we were adults,
00:28we won't be walking everywhere with a calculator in our pockets.
00:31Turns out, we all do. This wasn't the case until the mid-2010's.
00:34By 2012, only half of all Americans had smartphones.
00:38And then came the smartphone.
00:40Hey, remember when we were arguing about the most popular food?
00:46It's bread.
00:48Instead, people had to bring other things with them, like cameras, MP3 players, books, and flashlights.
00:54Now, these things are considered retro and cumbersome.
00:57What's the point in wearing a watch or buying an alarm clock when your phone does it all?
01:01Many people don't even use their phone as a phone anymore, with FaceTime becoming preferred to voice calls.
01:06Don't you think we should've heard something?
01:08I'm sure they're fine.
01:09You know, I'm calling them.
01:14Hey!
01:15Number 19. Juicero.
01:17The 2010s were when technology became ridiculously monetized.
01:20The peak of this trend was arguably the Juicero.
01:22A concept so absurd that it makes no sense how it was ever made.
01:26It was a juicer, as the name implies.
01:28Except that, unlike every other juicer, this one needed a wifi connection and proprietary fruit packets.
01:34My first thought was, wow, it looks like a computer.
01:37Which I think it is, actually.
01:39It's got wifi and all this other technical stuff in there.
01:43Turned out, these packets could be squeezed by hand, making the $699 machine redundant.
01:48It was so unpopular, that they eventually reduced the price to $399, which was still hundreds more than most other juicers.
01:55They shut down in 2017, as the founders failed to realize juicers had been around for decades, and making them more restrictive doesn't sell well.
02:03It's so easy that it makes the old way of juicing seem, well, old.
02:08Why did I do all that other stuff?
02:09Who cares, that's our past life.
02:11This is our new life.
02:12Number 18. Dubstep.
02:14He's known as Skrillex, the king of the dubstep.
02:18In the 90s, the house subgenre garage was huge in the UK.
02:21From this movement, dubstep emerged, becoming massively mainstream in the early 2010s.
02:26The face of mainstream dubstep was easily the producer Skrillex.
02:38In 2010, his Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP gained global fame.
02:42The genre was everywhere online, with countless YouTube videos beginning with an excessively intense dubstep intro.
02:54By 2015, the craze had died down entirely, and it was no longer mainstream.
02:58That wasn't the end for dubstep, though.
03:00It simply returned to being a niche.
03:02Also, it was a major influence on the later hyper-pop movement, but the genre has similarly lost momentum.
03:07Number 17. Limited Texts.
03:09It used to be the case that you were only allowed a limited number of texts per month.
03:13In the olden days, texts and calls were the main way to communicate over long distances.
03:17This made every text sent way more valuable.
03:19Even when you had a contract allowing for unlimited texts, they were never truly infinite.
03:33Now, virtually every contract offers unlimited texts.
03:37And if it doesn't, why would you care?
03:39Apps like WhatsApp exist, and let you message to your heart's content.
03:42As long as you're connected to Wi-Fi, data limits have instead become the main thing to compare when ordering a phone contract.
03:48Look, it's not you, it's just your new phone.
03:51Blurry photos, weird likes.
03:53You know, if your group has different phones, just use WhatsApp.
03:55It's seamless and private.
03:57Number 16. Flash Games.
03:59If you went to school in the 2000s or the 2010s, you probably have memories of playing Flash games in computer classes.
04:05Tragically, in 2020, many of us lost this part of our childhood, as Flash was discontinued.
04:10But most of them still exist, thankfully, and are kept alive via other programs.
04:16They're sadly not as popular as they once were, though.
04:19As computers have gotten increasingly powerful, Flash games have been pushed out of the market.
04:23Why would someone want to play a game in their browser, when most modern PCs and smartphones can run games like Minecraft?
04:38Number 15. Tivana.
04:40In 1997, the beverage chain Tivana was founded in Georgia.
04:43They eventually grew to have stores all across North America, and even in the Middle East.
04:47In 2012, they were bought by Starbucks, and five years later, all their stores had shut down.
04:52You could still buy a handful of their products from Starbucks, but it's not the same as before.
05:01It was a cafe where you could relax with a pot of tea, trying a variety of blends.
05:05Some theorized that people came to prefer less time-consuming cafes, making Tivana inconvenient.
05:10Others think Starbucks bought them solely to shut down competition.
05:13The motives don't change the final result, though, which is that Tivana is long gone.
05:18Sunday will be the last day for that store at the mall in Northeast Fresno.
05:21It's known for selling both tea and teapots.
05:24Most of the other locations nationwide will be closed by the spring of 2018, according to Starbucks.
05:30Number 14. Nintendo 3DS.
05:32Quite a lot of people consider the 3DS to be the greatest handheld gaming console ever made.
05:37The invention of the Switch and handheld PCs means they're not as prominent anymore.
05:41But that doesn't mean it wasn't an amazing system.
05:43It was released in 2011, and discontinued in 2020, making it a staple of the 2010s.
05:48Isn't it time for you to go to bed?
05:51With games like New Super Mario Bros. 2 and Freaky Forms Deluxe, Nintendo 3DS is the perfect gift.
05:56Games rated E for everyone.
05:57They're far cheaper now, but are still worth the price tag, since they're so moddable.
06:01Games could be stored on its internal memory or SD card, rather than the other DS's, where a flash cartridge was needed.
06:07So, even though they're not being made anymore, millions are still playing them.
06:10It's just the best.
06:12Duh.
06:13Why do we play 3DS?
06:15Because it's Nintendo.
06:16Why do you play?
06:17Number 13.
06:18Saturday Morning Cartoons.
06:20For decades, children across the globe would tune into a variety of cartoons every Saturday morning.
06:30Well, did you know they haven't existed for years?
06:33It would be easy to miss, since fewer and fewer people are watching live TV.
06:37That's the problem, of course.
06:38Most children get an unlimited stream of cartoons from the internet or Netflix.
06:42They had mostly vanished in Canada by 2002, and then in the mid-2010s in the US.
06:46Thankfully, cartoons are far from a dying format.
06:49If anything, they're in a better spot today than ever before, with cartoons being made for people of all ages.
06:54Looks like everything's but the regular hair.
06:57Yup.
06:58I reckon it's time for me to go.
07:00Go?
07:01You can't go.
07:02Gotta go.
07:03Sometimes the fellas just gotta be moving on.
07:06Number 12.
07:073D televisions.
07:09It's quite hilarious when you remember there was a time when people thought all TVs would become 3D.
07:14In the early 2010s, the market was oversaturated with expensive 3D televisions.
07:19Now, OLED and 4K UHD are the new trends.
07:22The reason they failed is simple.
07:24They just weren't that good.
07:25Put on your LG 3D glasses, and wow, your brain combines separate images to bring you all the depth and excitement you expect from 3D.
07:34They also needed flashy glasses for the effect, which was a pain for organizing a group movie night.
07:38The ones that didn't need glasses weren't much better, and both would cause eye strain after prolonged use.
07:43It wasn't just the TV you needed.
07:44You'd need a 3D-capable device, such as a 3D Blu-ray.
07:48It's just not worth the effort, and the fad's unlikely to make a comeback.
07:51A lack of demand, with consumers not that keen on sitting on their sofas at home in their living room, wearing a pair of these to watch TV.
08:01Number 11.
08:02Facebook Games.
08:03In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Facebook was the biggest social media platform.
08:07Nice to meet you.
08:08Facebook, maybe when you get home.
08:10Yeah, maybe we can all go and grab a drink.
08:12Now, it's got way more competition, and has declined massively.
08:15If you were signed up during its peak era, you'll probably remember being flooded with game invites.
08:19If not, that's probably because you were the one sending them.
08:22Many required having friends to progress, which was a major factor in their popularity.
08:26Famous examples include Dragon City, and of course, FarmVille.
08:29Many of these games were developed by Zynga, which was acquired by Take-Two Interactive in 2022, and isn't as prominent as it once was.
08:42Number 10.
08:43Netflix Mailing DVDs.
08:45For those who only know Netflix as a streaming service, allow us to tell you about how the company started.
08:50Go to Netflix.com, make a list of the movies you want to see, and in about one business day, you'll get three DVDs.
08:57Netflix was always about movies.
08:59In the late 1990s, when they first came on the scene, they did so as a DVD by mail service.
09:05They would send you DVDs in the mail.
09:07You would watch them and send them back.
09:09Keep them as long as you want without late fees.
09:11It was a great concept, and by February of 2007, they'd already mailed out one billion DVDs.
09:17Then they got into streaming.
09:18By 2009, streaming had overtaken DVD shipments, and the trend just kept growing.
09:23In September of 2023, Netflix sent out its last DVD.
09:33Most people probably would have assumed the mail service part of the business had ended even earlier than that.
09:38Number 9.
09:39PlayStation Vita.
09:40While the PlayStation Portable gets most of the nostalgia love when it comes to PS handheld devices,
09:45we hope there are some of you who remember the PlayStation Vita with some fondness.
09:55Released in Japan in 2011, and in North America and Europe the following year,
09:59the Vita sold well at first, but saw a pretty big drop off after the launch excitement wore off.
10:04General opinions of the device also seemed cool with the passage of time, and sales numbers never reached what Sony had hoped.
10:14The game catalog was not good enough.
10:16There were no AAA titles as advertised.
10:19It probably didn't help that during this same time was the growth in smartphones,
10:23which meant we all had handheld gaming systems in our pockets.
10:26The Vita was discontinued in 2019.
10:29Number 8.
10:31Papyrus.
10:32Papyrus, the material, was first manufactured in Egypt in the third millennium BCE.
10:37Papyrus, the stationary and greeting card store, opened its first location in 1973.
10:42And by 1991, there were 37 stores across the United States.
10:46How did Papyrus come to be?
10:48Well, it's really a great story, a true entrepreneurial story.
10:52In 2009, that number grew to a few hundred, but it was all downhill from there.
10:57Papyrus has announced it will close all of its 254 stores in the coming weeks.
11:03Papyrus attributed their downfall to a few factors.
11:06Overexpansion, an increase in digital shopping and subsequent decrease in in-person shopping,
11:11and strain from the 2008 financial crisis.
11:14In 2020, the Papyrus stores that were still around all closed down, and the company is no longer.
11:19The announcement comes after the retail group reportedly filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this month.
11:24Going out of business sales are now underway.
11:27Number 7.
11:28Nokia Lumia Smartphone.
11:30We can't talk about the Nokia Lumia Smartphone without talking about Microsoft's attempt to get into the mobile phone game in the 2010s.
11:37That's because the Lumia phones were exclusively running the Windows Phone operating system.
11:49Windows Phone definitely had its fans, and the Lumia was a well-liked device with sales growing fairly consistently from 2011 through 2014.
11:56So what happened in 2014?
12:03Well, Microsoft, which completed the purchase of Nokia in 2014, began to gradually eliminate the Nokia name.
12:10In 2015, they introduced the Microsoft Lumia, running the new Windows 10 Mobile OS.
12:15Sales began to drop, and by 2017, the Lumia was pretty much done.
12:19Number 6.
12:20iPod.
12:211,000 songs in your pocket.
12:22Well, these days, anyone with a Spotify, YouTube Music, or Apple Music subscription has way more than 1,000 songs in their pocket.
12:40Back at the turn of the century, this was a huge deal.
12:43The coolest thing about iPod is that your entire music library fits in your pocket.
12:49When Apple launched the iPod line in 2001, the ability to load up all of our MP3 files onto one cool device was as exciting as the company's famed silhouette ad campaign made it seem.
13:00And remember the click wheel? How awesome was that?
13:03But while there are plenty of us who still cherish our old iPods, 2022 was the final year of their production.
13:08As we look back on the iPod, I'll keep mine in case it's worth something one day.
13:12Number 5.
13:13Microsoft Kinect.
13:14Motion sensor control gaming without the need for physical controllers sounds pretty cool.
13:18We thought, this would be fun to play with.
13:21And it was.
13:22And it was fairly revolutionary back in 2010, when Microsoft introduced their Kinect.
13:27Indeed, it was pretty cool, and initial sales were impressive.
13:30So much so, that their 8 million sales in the first 60 days set a Guinness World Record for the fastest selling consumer electronic device.
13:37Unexpected things.
13:42Helpful things.
13:44But, they couldn't keep up the pace.
13:46By 2017, after officially discontinuing the Kinect in favor of honing in on more in-demand products, Microsoft informed the public that they'd sold a total of 35 million units.
13:56Even though the world keeps asking us what we'll do with Kinect next, we're just as excited to ask the world the same thing.
14:05Number 4.
14:06Wii U.
14:07The Wii U is often the forgotten Nintendo console.
14:10Time to upgrade to Wii U.
14:13Lasting from 2012 through 2017, the Wii U was the follow-up to the highly successful Wii, and the predecessor to the popular Nintendo Switch.
14:22It had the cool, innovative Wii U gamepad, with a built-in touchscreen, and it was the first Nintendo console to support HD graphics.
14:29Is that a shortcut?
14:30Maybe.
14:31But sales never reached the levels Nintendo would've wanted, and the Wii U became more of a bridge between beloved console generations than a standout device on its own.
14:39Sure, some of us still play on our Wii U's, but most folks have moved on in their gaming lives.
14:43And that's how it's done.
14:45Number 3.
14:46Portable GPS Units
14:48Sure, most of us have a portable GPS unit in our pocket now.
14:52It's called our smartphone.
14:53But in this case, we aren't talking about our phone with Google Maps on it.
14:57We're talking those old-school, yes, it's already old-school, Garmin or TomTom-type devices with GPS and maps, and nothing else.
15:06Let's call it an early holiday gift.
15:08Nice.
15:09At this time, these personal navigation assistants felt like a revolutionary upgrade from paper maps, and they were.
15:15But with the explosion of smartphones and map apps, these devices have been rendered largely obsolete.
15:20Oh, yes!
15:22We built this city!
15:24Bum, bum, bum, bum!
15:25To be fair, they do still exist, but serve a fairly niche market, primarily used for outdoor activities like hiking in remote areas.
15:32We built this city.
15:34Number 2.
15:35Vine
15:36You might think that six seconds isn't long enough to do anything meaningful, but for five years, Vine proved that it most definitely was long enough.
15:43What is Vine?
15:44Basically, Vine is Instagram for video.
15:47The video-sharing site that allowed users to post six-second-long clips became very popular, and even launched some of its users into the limelight.
15:55Can you say Shawn Mendes, for example?
15:57Can you click the camera?
15:58Okay.
15:59Can you just hold the middle of the screen?
16:00Okay.
16:01In 2013, Vine was a revolution.
16:03But as competitors got into the space and creators started moving on to other platforms, Vine just couldn't keep going.
16:09By 2016, more than half of the app's most popular users had moved to other services.
16:14In 2017, Vine said goodbye.
16:16But while it may have been gone just as soon as it began, the impact that Vine has made on the online video industry will no doubt last for several years to come.
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16:39Number 1. BlackBerry Phones Everywhere
16:43When's the last time you saw a BlackBerry phone in the wild?
16:46What kind of mad genius is behind this?
16:48There was a time in the 2000s and 2010s when it would have been very easy to answer that question, because BlackBerry phones were everywhere.
16:56Sure, iPhones and Androids were beginning to take over, but BlackBerry lovers were a very dedicated bunch, and getting them off those keypad devices was a Herculean task.
17:05The classic is everything you want from a BlackBerry and so much more.
17:09The phones didn't get the nickname CrackBerry by accident.
17:12BlackBerry's sales reached their peak in 2011, but by Q4 of 2016, they sold so few units that BlackBerry's market share was nearly nonexistent.
17:21BlackBerry desperately tried to stay afloat by flooding the market with products.
17:25In the same time period it took Apple to release four iPhones, BlackBerry released over 30 unique devices.
17:31BlackBerry stopped manufacturing devices in 2016 and shut down its services on January 4th, 2022.
17:37What was your favorite part of the 2010s pop culture, and is it still popular today?
17:41Let us know in the comments below.
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